The Change of the Sabbath

Preface

Chapter 1- The Sabbath a Living Issue

An Ancient Institution

A Religious Day

The Day of the Sabbath

Chapter 2- The Origin of the Sabbath

Chapter 3- The Sabbath before Sinai

The Weekly Cycle

The Sabbath before Sinai

Chapter 4- The Sabbath at the Giving o f the Law

Chapter 5- What the Fourth Commandment Requires

Chapter 6- The Sabbath from Sinai to Calvary

Tradition Exalted by the Jews

Christ Kept the Seventh Day

Christ the Lord of the Sabbath

Chapter 7- Did Our Saviour Change The Sabbath?

Evidence in the Evangelists

Matthew’s Testimony

Mark’s Testimony

Luke’s Testimony

John’s Testimony

The Law Honored by Christ

A Memorial

The Destruction of Jerusalem

Chapter 8- Reasons Assigned For Sunday Sacredness

John 20:19

John 20:26

Acts 2:1, 2

Redemption Greater than Creation

God’s Memorials

Chapter 9- The Sabbath during the Lives of t he Apostles

Acts 20:6-14

1 Corinthians 16:1, 2

Acts 13:4, 42, 44

Acts 16:13

Acts 17:1, 2

Acts 18:4, 11

“The Lord’s Day” Revelation 1:10

The Sabbath in the New Earth

Chapter 10- The Two Rest Days In Secular History

The Great Apostasy

Chapter 11- The Sabbath in the Early Centuries after Christ

Christianity Becomes Popular

Council of Laodicea

The Sabbath a Fast Day

Chapter 12- How Sunday Rose Into Prominence

Antiquity of Sun Worship

Origin of Sun Worship

The Sabbath among Gentile Nations

Assyrian Tablets

The Sabbath Superseded

Chapter 13- Other Reasons Why Sunday Was Favored

First Instance of Sunday Observance

Sunday a Festival

Chapter 14- A Law for Resting On Sunday

Constantine’s Edict

Effect on the Church

Where is the Resemblance?

A Heathen Union Consummated

Sunday First Called “Lord’s Day”

Chapter 15- Sunday Down To the Reformation

Sunday First Called Sabbath

Councils Favoring Sunday

Divine Authority Claimed for Sunday

Chapter 16- Attitude of the Reformers toward Sunday

The Seventh Part of Time Theory

A Preposterous Claim

Chapter 17- Traces of Early Sabbath Keeping

The Culdees

The Waldenses

The Passaginians

The Petrobruslans

Sabbath-keepers in Africa

The Armenians

In the East Indies

Summary

Chapter 18- What Catholic Authorities Say About Sunday

The Roman Decretalia

Catechism

Clifton Tracts

A Challenge

Statements by Catholic Authors

Chapter 19- Admissions of Some Protestants

A Retrospect

Chapter 20- General Observations and Conclusions

The Four Universal Kingdoms

The Triple Crown

Presumptuous Claims

“He Shall Think to Change”

“That Wicked”

God’s Vindication

The “Woman” of Revelation 12

The “Remnant”

What it Means to Keep the law

The Three Angels’ Messages

The “Beast” of Revelation 13

The Crisis

Chapter 21- Summary of Facts about the Sabbath

Chapter 22- Summary of Facts about Sunday

WE will now briefly notice the leading reasons given for the supposed change of the Sabbath.

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Chapter 8- Reasons Assigned For Sunday Sacredness